IDE President, Terry Quarmby, made a presentation at the Spring Seminar on Sustainability and Demolition

He introduced his talk with three points

• The term sustainability is a much used phrase that has become almost common place
• Sustainability, as the Bruntland Report suggests, is what we are doing now to improve matters and not just what needs to be addressed in the future.
• What is needed to ensure that sustainable ideals are implemented is a radical re-think on the primary use of materials in the new build to facilitate ease of reclamation and ultimately re-use

Terry's presentation

Gary Eastman spoke about the innovative Bierrum Spider and chimney demolition at the seminar on 5 March 2010

In September 2006, International Power awarded a contract to Bierrum International to design and build a new 180m multi flue chimney at Rugeley Power Station as part of the new Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) installation

The new chimney affected the stability of the existing chimney, which was redundant as it could not be used for the new plant.  It was a ready made job for the Bierrum Spider

At the 5 March IDE Spring Seminar, Howard Button presented the results of an NFDC workshop held to explore working with high reach machines.

It focussed on

• FOPS +
• Telescopic booms
• Working ratio.
• Ground Conditions
• Maintenance
• Exclusion zones
• Training
• Equipment
• Boom Cradles/ Machine Commissioning
• Weather Conditions

Ron Callan, Kocurek Excavators Ltd, kicked off the IDE Spring Seminar on 5 March 2010 at the Royal Armouries by describing their range of bespoke front end equipment for hydraulic excavators.

Speaking about their wide ranging capabilities which were very relevant in a range of demolition scenarios, Ron used pictures and diagrams to illustrate his talk.

Presentation